NaaS and middle mile are fairly new concepts in the industry, but they're old hat on TeleGeography's podcast. In past episodes, we've spotlighted the framework, concept, market players, and products available.
Today, we look at things from another perspective.
You already know that Ukrainians are taking to platforms like Twitter, Telegram, and TikTok to share the sights and sounds of Russia’s invasion.
But here’s a new development: in just one month, carriers have clocked a sevenfold increase in international voice traffic to Ukraine.
Welcome to Part 2 of our analysis of the regional cellular scene in the United States! In this installment, we scrutinize some of the most interesting cellcos operating in far-flung corners of rural America.
If you missed Part 1 of our deep dive, you can catch up.
The TeleGeography team began benchmarking networks almost a decade ago.
Back then, the big use case was making sure that carrier and customer were on the same page about how much MPLS and access prices had fallen over the life of a contract, and how far prices would probably fall in the next several years.
The pan-African telecom group Africell has broken Angola’s long-standing mobile market duopoly with its launch on April 7.
If initial reports are correct, Africell has hit the ground running, attracting around two million subscriptions in its first month of operation.
Our readers likely know about NaaS: cloud-based network architecture that allows a WAN manager to stitch together different enterprise network components in a self-service, automated way.
AtTeleGeography Explains the Internet, we've been watching the ways in which NaaS has emerged as specific products/solutions from vendors, as well as how it integrates with existing WAN strategies from the enterprise side.
If you’re an enterprise network manager in need of a dedicated cloud connection service, you’re in luck; you’ve got a wide array of service providers and locations to choose from.
You could set up a link directly with the cloud provider, but why not use a third-party—such as a carrier, colocation provider, or connectivity specialist?
The question then changes. Who are you going to choose? And where will you set up your connections? This often depends on the location of your enterprise WAN in relation to the cloud providers’ regions or data centers.
In this analysis, we’ll explore options available to network managers.
Here's a hot take: the networking hype cycle has moved on from SD-WAN in favor of SASE and now SSE.
The U.S. mobile market is notoriously ultra-competitive, and household names like Sprint aren't the only ones to have been squeezed out in recent years.
Since 2020, Verizon Wireless has snapped up regional players such as Chat Mobility, Bluegrass Cellular, Triangle Mobile, and Chariton Valley Communications.
Tellingly, all four operators were participants in the telecom giant’s “LTE in Rural America” program, which leased 700MHz of spectrum to regional players in areas where Verizon had no intention of deploying infrastructure. After going live in 2010, the project was completed in October 2015, when all 21 participants were confirmed to be operational.
At the program’s peak, operators collectively covered more than 2.7 million people across 169 rural counties in 15 states.
Despite Verizon’s low-key takeover spree, dozens of smaller players continue to thrive in the U.S. This week we take a deep dive into the regional cellular scene and uncover the cellcos serving rural America.
WAN managers had to scramble to accommodate massive changes when the world shut down during the pandemic. Offices transitioned to remote work and navigated brand-new traffic patterns.
Our guest on this week's podcast navigated the added challenge of running a network within the healthcare industry, where business needs were changing in real-time.
